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Owning a number?

Edgy DC Sep 16 2010 08:01 AM

Try and customize a jersey at this page: http://www.fanzz.com/new_york_yankees_a ... 0road.html What's missing?

Benjamin Grimm Sep 16 2010 08:07 AM Re: Owning a number?

That's strange. You can be Babe Ruth or Mickey Mantle, but you can't be Gehrig, DiMaggio, Berra, or Jeter. By the way, what were you doing on that page? Did SteveJRogers sneeze on you or something?

Benjamin Grimm Sep 16 2010 08:07 AM Re: Owning a number?

(No, I don't know exactly what I meant by that "sneeze" comment. It doesn't make sense to me either!)

Edgy DC Sep 16 2010 08:11 AM Re: Owning a number?

I can imagine Derek Jeter and Yogi, Inc. somehow getting the right to license their numbers exclusively when used on Yankee gear, but I'm surprised to see Gehrig missing. I was there to order my new shirt.

MFS62 Sep 16 2010 09:12 AM Re: Owning a number?

Edgy DC wrote: Try and customize a jersey at this page: http://www.fanzz.com/new_york_yankees_a ... 0road.html What's missing? Michael Kay was talking about this on his radio show the other day. He was really irate that some of the famous/ retired numbers ( he specified Gehrig) could be used with someone else's name to make a buck. Later

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Sep 16 2010 09:23 AM Re: Owning a number?

Well, yeah, because Michael Kay's less credible than a drunken five-year-old Rod Blagojevich. Michael Kay doesn't buy Michael Kay. I know that there's some precedence with allowing certain names-- beyond obscenities-- on NFL jerseys (for instance, no "Mexico" or "Ron Mexico" when Michael Vick was fielding a civil suit from a young woman alleging his use of that alias in bedding her/giving her the herp). But numbers?

dgwphotography Sep 16 2010 09:51 AM Re: Owning a number?

Maybe this has something to do with it:

Willets Point Sep 17 2010 06:10 AM Re: Owning a number?

If you're feeling really twisted, you could make a Seaver 41 jersey.

seawolf17 Sep 17 2010 08:08 AM Re: Owning a number?

It's the site, not the team. http://www.fanzz.com/New_York_Mets_Adul ... tAltA.html

Edgy DC Sep 17 2010 08:18 AM Re: Owning a number?

Obviously Berra is just as protective of his Mets identity --- as is Bobby Valentine and, um, Bruce Boisclair.